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Hedge Funds Made Investors $1.5 Trillion in 10 Years, AIMA Says

Hedge funds have made about $1.5 trillion for investors after management fees in the past 10 years

‘Older generation embracing online banking technology’, says study

Online banking has seen a boom among the older generation, with nearly 2.3 million aged between 70 and over 100 years old now using internet banking

AIMA and CAIA launch series of hedge fund papers for pension fund trustees

They are being produced in collaboration with the AIMA Investor Steering Committee, a group of leading institutional investors globally with approximately $150 billion invested in hedge funds.

Mourant Ozannes leads in the Jersey Funds space

Offshore law firm Mourant Ozannes' position as the leading advisor to funds in Jersey has been reaffirmed with the latest research

High-net-worth individuals own 38% of UK’s total wealth, report says

Number of dollar millionaires predicted to hit 1m within three years

Defaqto teams up with IFP to give financial advisers independent, practical resources

The initiative will kick off with a factsheet on multi-asset funds.

Where next for Greece after Syriza's election victory? - Schroders

Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist and Strategist at Schroders, comments on the results of the Greek election.

Survey: Hedge Funds Optimistic About Increased Investor Exposure

That level increases to 63% when respondents were asked about expected exposure to hedge funds by institutional investors over the next five years.

Cyprus to stay in recession for 2015

Nicosia Cyprus's battered economy will remain in recession in 2015, albeit shrinking a slower pace than last year

Greenwich survey shows growing institutional adoption of ETFs in Europe

22% of institutions to increase their allocations to ETFs in the next three years. Asset managers use ETFs in nearly three quarters of multi asset funds. Pension funds hold ETFs for an average of 29 months.

Pension scammer activity trebles in three months

Pension savers are almost three times more likely to be approached to review their pension or release some of it as cash than they were nine months ago

How low can we go? by Justin Urquhart Stewart

Whether it was the dramatic withdrawal of the Swiss Franc peg to the Euro, with all its ramifications, or through to the less exciting reduction in Danish interest rates,

Money worries by Tim Price

I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity

Russia faces $40bn battle to stave off banking crisis

Russia may have to spend more than $40bn this year to avert a banking crisis, as the growing likelihood of a sharp recession threatens to pile extra costs on a sector suffering from Western sanctions over Ukraine and a plunge in the rouble.

QE to provide welcome eurozone boost - Schroders

Below Azad Zangana, Senior European Economist and Strategist and Rory Bateman, Head of UK and European Equities, comment on today’s decision by the European Central Bank.

Vive L¹Europe: We think the recent (and much welcomed) outperformance of European stocks over the US can continue - Psigma

ummary, let’s hope that European governments take the chance to act to turn their hunkering old ship toward a more promising horizon. That seems unlikely based upon recent experience but even if they don’t then this historical day in Europe sh

Affordable Drawdown Tops European Managers' Product Plans

Managers try to pre-empt effects of optional annuitization with cheaper offerings, but strategies still a "work in progress"

Investment Strategy for 2015 by Guy Wagner

In my article on the investment strategy for 2014, I wrote that it was important to differentiate between the structural framework and the short-term environment. Another way of looking at this is to say that you shoulddistinguish between the economy and

PwC launches 18th Global CEO Survey results in Davos, Switzerland

Fewer CEOs than last year think global economic growth will improve over the next 12 months, though confidence in their ability to achieve revenue growth in their own companies remains stable, say the more than 1,300 CEOs interviewed in PwC's 18th An

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